The Major Pros and Cons to Being Male in the West - a List

Note: This list is not complete. If you can think of anything that I've missed, please leave a comment and I'll add it.

I want this list to include only the big, major things, so 'men are expected to pay on the first date' will not make an appearance. (Don't let the feminists distract themselves by letting them quibble over the smaller things.)

I have left out statistics that are influenced by individual choices, such men being < 90% of injuries in the workplace, and bodily differences, such as men not being able to get pregnant. This list is intended to reflect the baseline disadvantages for men vs. women.

Statistics specifically focus on North America.

 

Disadvantages to being a man

Education & the workplace:

• Graded lower in school for the same test answers

• Less likely to be accepted into a university or college with the same application

• Less likely to receive a job interview with the same CV

• Less likely to be hired from an interview, especially if the interviewer is female

• Less likely to be promoted in the workplace accounting for all factors

• Job opportunities are explicitly open to women for the sake of being female and never the other way around

 

Law & Order:

• The draft

• No real reproductive rights. Sperm theft is not illegal anywhere.

• Domestic abuse against men is taken ridiculously less seriously to the point that the laws are written for the benefit of women alone at the cost of men's safety

• Get 60% longer prison sentences for the same crime in court

• Women, when committing a crime, are much less likely to get to a position where they are facing a prison sentence at all

• A worldwide ban on female genital mutilation but not male genital mutilation

• Massively disadvantaged in divorce court

• Custody battles are an overwhelming uphill battle for men

 

Mental health:

• 4 times as likely to take my own life

• 3 times as likely to be homeless

 

Safety & Health:

• 1.5 times as likely to be a victim of violence

• More likely to be a victim of sexual abuse (especially as a child)

• More likely to be a victim of online harassment

• Whenever there's danger, it will be expected of a man to put himself at risk for the sake of women (even if I've never met them)

• There are far fewer domestic abuse shelters that will accept men

• Overwhelming support of women's health to the exclusion of men's, such as with male-only affecting cancers

 

Socially:

• People show vastly more sympathy for women in negative situations, particularly with violence and sexual abuse

• Perceived as dangerous much more often

• Far harder to find a sexual partner

• The male loneliness epidemic

• Open misandry in current popular culture

• Women get to rent an apartment easier

 

Advantages to being a man

• Less likely to have an eating disorder

• Slightly less likely to be a victim of domestic abuse (the statistics are hard to nail down for this)